Lens-mounting.



No. 805,541. PATENTED NOV. 28, 1905.

F. A. HARDY.

LENS MOUNTING.

APPLICATION FILED DIKLZB, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS A. HARDY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LENS-MOUNTING- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 28, 1905.

Application filed December 23, 1904. Serial No. 238,126.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANoIs A. HARDY, a

- citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in LensMountings, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a mounting for the lenses of eyeglasses, and more particularly to that class of mountings in which the spring is horizontal, or substantially so; and its object is to provide an improved mounting of this class.

To this end the invention consists in the features of novelty that are hereinafter described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which are madea part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of a pair of eyeglasses having mountings embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the mountings. Fig. 3 is a diagram of the integral blank of which the mounting is formed. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a mounting of modified form embodying some features of the invention.

The entire mounting for the two lenses is integral, and the parts upon opposite sides of the central vertical line of the spring are of similar construction, so that a description of the parts on one side of said line will sufiice for the time being, corresponding parts upon both sides having similar reference-letters.

A is the lens, B the straps, which lie against the opposite faces of the lens, and C is a portion lying against or in close proximity to the edge of the lens and connecting the straps. Projecting downward from the portion C is a bracing-tongue D, lying against the edge of the lens, and projecting upward from said portion G is a second bracing-tongue E. The tongue D tapers to a point, but the tongue E continues of equal width throughout and at its upper end joins a depending portion F through an inverted-U-shaped bend G.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 4 parallel flanges H join edgewise the front and rear edges of the depending portion F and proceed inward therefrom, and these flanges, together with the depending portion F, form an open box for receiving the shank of the nose-guard.

Thus far I have described nothing new.

The spring I, which is what is known in the art as a horizontal spring, has its end reflexed, as shown at c', and from the extremity of this reflexed or inwardly-extending portion a portion proceeds rearwardand joins the front edge of the depending portion. 1n the pre ferred form of the invention the spring joins the depending portion quite at the lower end thereof; but in the form shown in Fig. i it joins above the box; but in both instances it proceeds forward therefrom. In the preferred form of the invention the depending portion proceeds downward below the spring to form the shank J of the guard, the pad K being formed by a T branch at the extremity of the shank. This particular form of pad is, however, not an essential part of the invention.

The blank from which the mounting shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is formed is'shown in Fig. 3, and the parts thereof of which the several parts of the guard are formed bear similar reference-letters.

It will be observed that the mounting is without a post, the function of the post being supplied by the depending portion F and the U-shaped bend G.

In construing terms denoting the positions of the parts it is to be assumed that the glasses are in position for use and with the lenses in a vertical or substantially vertical plane.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As a new article of manufacture, an integral lens-mounting having, for each of the lenses, a bracing-tongue and a depending portion joining the upper end of the tongue, and a horizontal spring, the ends of which join the said depending portions edgewise, substantially as described.

2. As a new article of manufacture, an integral lens-mounting having, for each of the lenses, abracing-tongue and a depending portion joining the upper end of the tongue and a horizontal spring the-ends of which are reflexed and join the depending portions edgewise, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, an integral lens-mounting having, for each of the lenses, a bracing-tongue, and a depending end joining the upper portion of the tongue, at guard-shank continuing downward from the lower end of the depending portion, and a spring the ends of which join the depending portions, substantially as described.

4:. As a new article of manufacture, an integral lens mounting having a horizontal spring, an inverted-U-shaped portion at each end of thespring, the outer side of each of said U-shaped portions extending downward and means for securing said downwardly-extending portion to the lens, substantially as described.

5. As a new article of manufacture an integral lens-mounting having a horizontal spring, an inverted-U-shaped portion ateach end of the spring, the end of the spring joining, edgewise, the inner side of the U-shaped portion and the outer side of the U-shaped portion being continued outward and means for attaching the outer side of the U-shaped portion to the lens, substantially as described.

6. As a new article of manufacture a lensmounting having a horizontal spring, the ends of which have rearwardly-extending portions, an inverted-U-shaped portion at each end of the spring, the rearwardly-extending portion of the spring joining, edgewise, the front edge of the inner side of the U-shaped portion, the outer side of said U-shaped portion being extended downward, and means for securing the latter portion to the lens, substantially as described.

7. As a new article of manufacture a lensmounting having a horizontal spring, an inverted-U-shaped portion at each end of said spring, the end of the spring joining, edgewise, the inner side of said U-shaped portion and the outer side of said U-shaped portion being extended downward, means for securing the downwardly-extending portion to the lens, and a shank joining the inner side of the U-shaped portion and extending downward, substantially as described.

8. A blank for lens-mountings having an intermediate portion for forming the spring, portions, E, at the ends of said intermediate portion extending, substantially, at right angles thereto, portions, B, extending from the opposite sides of the portions E, and substantially at right angles thereto and adapted to form the straps for embracing the lenses, and a portion D extending beyond the portions B, substantially as described.

9. A blank for lens-mountings having an intermediate portion, I, adapted to form the spring, laterally-extending portions E at the ends of the portion, I, perforated portions B extending in opposite directions from opposite edges of each of the portions E and adapted to form the straps, portions D extending beyond the portions B and in line with the portions E, and portions J proceeding from the junctions of the portions I and E and adapted to form the shanks of the guards, substantially as described.

FRANCIS A. HARDY.

Witnesses:

JOHN H. HORDIN, L. M. HOPKINS. 

